Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy Wrote a Memoir That Made Him Cry “Like a Goddamn Baby”

Classy news today in the literary world: San Diego’s most famous fictional newscaster, Ron Burgundy—the character played by Will Ferrell in Anchorman—is publishing his first memoir. The appropriately titled book, Let Me Off at the Top!: My Classy Life and Other Musings, will be released by Random House’s Crown Archetype on November 19, a month before the long-awaited Anchorman sequel,Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, opens in theaters.

The autobiography will feature never-been-told stories about Burgundy’s childhood and early career as well as anecdotes from his professional and romantic pursuits. In a press release announcing the memoir, Burgundy kindly included his own endorsement of the book. “I don’t know if it’s the greatest autobiography ever written. I’m too close to the work,” he said, adding, “I will tell you this much: the first time I sat down and read this thing . . . I cried like a goddamn baby, and you can take that to the bank!”

At this time, it is unclear whether Will Ferrell or his Anchorman co-writer, Adam McKay, will be writing the novel themselves or, just as important, whetherLet Me Off at the Top!will be leather-bound and smell of rich mahogany when it arrives in bookstores this fall. One can only hope.